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Master Your Game: Foundation of High Performance Teams - Part 2
| Guest post by: Jacque Small |
Article Overview: This is the fourth article in the series on High Performance Teams. Now that you've conducted your self-assessment, here are some suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of your teams. The first three category areas were discussed last month. The last four categories are covered here.
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Master Your Game: Foundation of High Performance Teams - Part 2
This is the fourth article in the series on High Performance Teams. Now that you've conducted your self-assessment, here are some suggestions for increasing the effectiveness of your teams. The first three category areas were discussed last month. The last four categories are covered here.
Creativity
Introduce fun into the workplace to stimulate thought and new ideas. When creating flip charts, use multiple pen colours as colours stimulate the brain and enhance memory. How about bringing slinky toys or squishy balls to your next meeting? Simply using our hands to play with toys while we are thinking enhances personal creativity. This may sound silly, but the toys will allow you to simultaneously stimulate both sides of your brain, so instead of only using half your brain to solve problems, you will be able to use all of your brain.
Diversity
To appreciate each other it is important to understand the behavioural or personal styles of the people on your team. We all have different styles of responding to our external environment and different ways of approaching and thinking through problems. Diversity encompasses more than respecting and valuing the different skills and unique talents of individuals, it also includes having a perspective on who we are as individuals.
In the seminar Uniting Your Team, the self- assessment Personal Coaching Styles Inventory is used to develop an understanding of your team's behavioural styles, the first step to enhancing understanding and respect among team members. To have an in-depth independent assessment and debriefing session, contact Catalyst.
Continuous Learning
Open and honest reflective questions of how well you are doing as a team will facilitate growth, both individually and as a team. Are you willing to ask the hard questions of yourself (the team) to determine how well you are working together? What are you doing well? What would you like to do more of? What do you need to learn as a team? What resources would make you more effective?
Through group coaching, Catalyst Business Coaching can help you identify knowledge gaps and learning opportunities for you and your team.
Results
It is important to have clear measurable goals, measure your progress along the way and celebrate successes and milestones. Celebration is an opportunity to recognize achievement and to maintain high energy levels to promote further successes. Acknowledgement is required to generate a sense of accomplishment and build confidence so individuals willingly take on bigger challenges. But remember, the attributes of a high performance team are developed and executed in the first six internal process areas - team charter, dialogue, working procedures, creativity, diversity, continuous learning. If your team is doing a great job in everything else, the results will flow effortlessly.
Mastering Your Game
My golf coach told me that if I wanted to become good at golf then I needed to focus on something other than the scorecard -- RESULTS. I learned that I needed to focus on my grip, swing and stance -- WHAT I needed to do to hit the ball to make a difference in my results. The next thing I learned was that I needed to focus on WHO I am and my attitude - HOW I show up when I play.
(WHO → HOW) X WHAT = RESULTS
By focusing on improving my technical skills and attitude, my scorecard also improved. I applied this formula for individual and team coaching and have had great success. Mastering Your Game means increasing your knowledge of who you are, as a leader or part of a team, and on how you approach what you are doing. If you can master that part, the results will follow.
Coaching can help you align your team's performance with the results you want to achieve. Depending on your needs, Catalyst can design a customized coaching, facilitation and/or seminar sessions to help you achieve high performance status.
Wishing you successful teams,
Jacque Small
How Effective Teams Succeed
Master Your Game: Introduction
The Hole in The Sum of The Parts
Permission to Succeed
Matching Team Types and Focus
Article Tags: effectiveness, high performance, selfassessment
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